Well, it's been a month of me editing various files turning my virgin woody system into one that actually works :-) , and now boy do I regret not keeping a captain's log of at least the names of the files I changed. I was thinking that there would be some automatic way to detect this --- and you guys are going to tell me how please.
Goal: to backup just the changes I made to the "virgin debian system." Sure hope my backup file will be slim and trim. I will make a bzip2ed cpio, just tell me the filenames. I will have 2 CD-R's and alternate appending these cpio.bz2's to them every few weeks and keeping them in separate places in the house. Hmmm, I suppose I should first make a little list of what packages are installed and even intending to be installed... Now about all the files I changed. Sure most are on /etc but not all. Yes I could do touch -t XXX timeline; find / -xdev -type f -newer timeline but then I would have to weed out lots of other non-me generated files, plus in the future adding packages to this system would blur the timeline. I know, I could somehow compare the files on my machine vs. some kind of packing list of the original contents of packages. Perhaps a quick check of if their date field is the same or something? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
